OKAY SO. I still need to finish it because it turned so much bigger than I wanted it to be. But basically, it's a silly little Team M AU (with a focus on Shamrock/Tsubaki but Tsubaki has something going on with all the others too) where they are all roommates. Tsubaki has to cope with Shamrock visiting his family for a few weeks.
There is so much symbolism. Everybody is absolutely unhinged. Sakuya is stealing Tsubaki's favorite mugs. Belkia does not have a single line of normal dialogue. I love it and I hope I can finish it in time for you to read it during the holidays!!
Shamrock glares at him. “I'm just making sure nobody sets fire on my plants again.”
“That was Higan,” Tsubaki argues, right when the culprit in question walks through the hallway towards the kitchen and snickers in response.
“It was a work of art,” he says. “You wouldn't understand.”
“No,” Shamrock all but hisses, he really hates Higan in ways Tsubaki will never understand. “And I will tell you now, if anything like that happens again, I will cut off your balls in your sleep. It will be a work of art.”
Tsubaki lifts an eyebrow. He didn't think Shamrock would be still hung up on that. Perhaps he's still mad that Tsubaki gave Higan the spare key to his bike lock instead of Shamrock. The thing is that Shamrock would use this power for evil and install a bunch of expensive, energy-efficient lights and bring the bike up to German safety standards – and Tsubaki can't allow that. With Higan he can be sure that he will carry the key around and hand it over whenever Tsubaki needs it, but he won't ever go near that bike.
“Is it finally happening?” Sakuya's voice echoes from the bathroom. He's in the process of skipping classes to freshen up the green color in his hair. “Are we cutting off Higan's balls?”
I wish that Reiko would introduces herself like this every time, but well at least every seitansai she doesn't miss the opportunity to brag that Shion chan is her wife 😂, life is good when your two favs in a group are married, shiawase desu 😆
I've been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I've watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.
take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:
looks like a strong man, right?
in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:
in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:
it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.
and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:
maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.
if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.
I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.
I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:
than this:
also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.
(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)
so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.
and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I'd rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.
Ranchers as Grant Wood’s American Gothic was supposed to be sillay and goofy but then I set the ranch on fire and one thing led to another and now it’s. sad DFBJDFGB I’m really happy with how this came out though, so!! Here’s my week 3 piece for the Hermitcraft Design Challenge thingie :]